#5 Jacob Gill Season 2025-26

2024 Honors - - Team Hustle Award, offense... 2024 - - Started at wide receiver in all 13 games... lead team in receiving with 35 catches for 411 yards (11.7 yards per catch avg.), two touchdowns and a long reception of 59 yards on the season... led team in receiving with a career-high six catches for a career-high 138 yards (career-high long of 59 yards) in 17-20 loss at UCLA... became first Hawkeye with a 100-yard receiving game since 2022 (122-Sam LaPorta), the first wide receiver since 2021 (106-Charlie Jones), and the first wideout since 2020 (140-Ihmir Smith-Marsette)... led team in receiving with five catches for 44 yards (long of 12 yards) in 38-21 win over Troy... led team in receiving with four catches for a career-high 47 yards (long of 21 yards) in 19-20 loss to Iowa State... led team in receiving with four catches for 29 yards (long of 10 yards), and rushed once for negative two yards, in 29-13 win over Maryland... caught three passes for 46 yards (long of 31 yards) and his first touchdown as a Hawkeye, and rushed once for six yards in season-opening 40-0 shutout of Illinois State... led team with three catches for six yards (long of six yards) in 40-14 win over Northwestern... caught three passes for 29 yards (long of 14 yards) in 24-27 Music City Bowl loss to Missouri... caught three passes for 24 yards (long of 22 yards), in 7-35 loss at #3/3 Ohio State... letterwinner.

At Northwestern – – Totaled 17 receptions for 195 yards and two touchdowns in three years with the Wildcats.

2023 – – Hampered by an injury in 2023, seeing action in only four games… had one catch for 11 yards at Rutgers.

2022 – – Appeared in all 12 games, including two starts… had a catch in seven games, totaling 99 yards (14.1 ypc) and one touchdown… scored a touchdown on a career-long 47-yard reception at Penn State… hauled in one catch for 20 yards in season finale versus Illinois.

2021 – – Saw action in all 12 contests… recorded eight catches for 85 yards and a score… his first career touchdown was a 31-yard reception against Duke.

High school honors – – Two-time first-team All-North Carolina Cap 7 Conference and First Team All-North Carolina 4A... Career – – Cardinal Gibbons High School’s all-time leader in receptions, receiving touchdowns and receiving yards… recorded 62 receptions, 806 yards and nine touchdowns as a junior… also lettered in track.

Personal – – Born 1/16/2003… communications with entrepreneurship focus degree; sports and recreation master’s program… member of prep Honor Roll… parents are Melvin and Lisa Gill… high school coach was Steven Wright.